[PHP] Re: Creating Images (.GIF) with PHP from Text?

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"Jason Caldwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> How can I create a dynamic image with PHP?
>
> Here's what I want to do; I have a counter (kinda) on my website.. and
this
> counter appears in a certain font -- which most computer systems will not
> have on their systems.
>
> So -- I want my PHP script to take a variable value; say 34,000 and save
> that as a .GIF or .JPG with a Blue Background, and White OCR A Extended
> 12point non-aliased Font.  With the word "Counter: " in-front of the
value.
>
> Is this possible with PHP (I hope...!)  Or, is there a *command line*
> utility out there for the Win32 platform that does this?

Yes Jason  it possible if you have GD library (http://www.boutell.com/gd/) .
but i'm not sure if it had in the Win32 platform.

For the tutorial read this article
http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/rasmus19990124.php3.

With my simple code but with unix host and use TTF font. (read another
function at http://th2.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php)

<?PHP
header ("Content-type: image/png");

$im = imagecreate (100, 20);
$bg = imagecolorallocate ($im, 0, 0, 255);
$white = imagecolorallocate ($im, 255, 255, 255);

imagettftext ($im, 12, 0, 5, 14, $white,
"/home/your_directoty/fonts/ARIAL.TTF", "Counter:34000");
imagepng ($im);
imagedestroy ($im);
?>

PS. Yes GIF is removed from gd because of copyright protect but you can use
PNG.

?>


> Thanks
> Jason
>
>
>



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